ADDENDA.

CITIES.

By the 13th & 14th Vic. c. 64, § 9, after the erection of any town into a city, such city and the liberties thereof shall (if such city when a town shall have been entitled to be represented by a member or members in the Legislative Assembly) for the purposes of representation, cease to form a part of the county, and shall be deemed to be in the relative position to the county, on the borders whereof it shall be situate, provided by the 85th § of the 12 Vic. c. 81, and the other provisions thereof. DOGS.

The stealing of dogs is not a felony, either at common law or by statute-4 Bl. Com. 236; but is punishable by the following

statute:

By stat. 4 & 5 V. c. 25, § 30, if any person shall steal any dog, or shall steal any beast or bird ordinarily kept in a state of confinement not being the subject of larceny at common law, every such offender being convicted thereof before a justice of the peace, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay over and above the value of the dog, beast, or bird, such sum of money not exceeding £5, as to the justice shall seem meet.

For proceedings under this statute see title "Summary Conviction."

A mastiff going at large unmuzzled, from the ferocity of his nature being dangerous, seems to be a common nuisance, and the owner may be indicted.-1 Burn. 918.

FISH.

By 7 Vic. c. 13, § 1, it is enacted that it shall not be lawful for any person to take any fish called "Lunge" or "Maskinonge," or "Salmon-trout," in Lake Memphramagog, or in any of the lakes, rivers or streams, in any of the counties of Stanstead, Sherbrook, Shefford, Missisquoi and Drummond, nor within the counties of Essex and Kent, between the first day of August and the first day of December, in every year, by means of spears or seines, or in any other way than by a single hook. 2. Nor for any person to build any fish ponds

in the river St. Francis, or in any of its tributary rivers or streams, so as in any way to obstruct the main channels within any of the said counties, for the purpose of taking salmon, or to take any trout or other small fish when they run into the small streams, brooks, or inlets within any of the said counties, for shade, during the summer months, with nets or baskets, or in any other way than by a single hook. § 3. Any person offending against the provisions of this act, on conviction before one or more justices, shall incur a penalty not exceeding £2, in the discretion of such justice or justices; which penalty, if not paid within eight days, shall be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of such party under the warrant of such justice or justices, and one moiety of such penalty shall belong to her Majesty for the use of the province, and the other to the prosecutor; and in default of payment, and no goods and chattels of the offender being found whereon to levy the same, then such offender shall be by the said justice, or justices, committed to the common gaol of the district, for a period not exceeding eight days, unless the penalty and costs shall be sooner paid.

LOCK-UP HOUSES.

By the 13th & 14th Vic. c. 64, § 10, the municipal councils of counties and unions of counties, are authorised to establish a lock-up house in any town, incorporated village, or police village, within the jurisdiction of such council, and to establish and provide for salary or fees to be paid to the constable in charge thereof, to be specially appointed by the magistrates of such county at general quarter sessions; such constable to be resident in such town or village, and be one of the constables of the town or township: provided 1st, that this act shall not affect any lock-up houses established by law heretofore in force; 2nd, that parties summarily convicted before magistrates under the summary punishment act *4 Wm. IV. c. 4, may, in the discretion of the committing magistrate, be committed to the nearest lock-up house in the county or union of counties, in which the conviction took place, instead of the common gaol.

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.

Laws. By the 13th & 14th Vic. c. 64, § 11, the provisional municipal councils in Upper Canada are authorised to make by-laws for borrowing money for the purchase of the necessary county property, and the erection of county buildings, and for other county works, subject to the restrictions and provisions for securing the payment of loans made to such councils within a limited time, as may by law be imposed upon such councils.

Dissolution of Unions.-§ 12. Upon the dissolution of any union of counties, the town reeves and deputy town reeves of the junior county, shall, until replaced by new elections, form the municipal council of such junior county; and the provisional warden, and other officers of the provisional municipal council, shall be the warden and officers of such junior county until a new election; and all the by-laws of such provisional municipal council shall continue in force until amended, altered or repealed. § 13. And every municipal corporation so substituted for such provisional municipal council, shall be charged with the debts, liabilities and obligations of such provisional municipal council; and all actions and suits continued in the name of such substituted municipal council. § 14. No by-law passed by any provisional municipal council according to the 177th of the 12 Vic. c. 81, for imposing a rate for the payment of any debt created by loan or otherwise, shall be repealed by such substituted council until such debt and interest be fully paid.

Provisional Municipal Council.-§ 16. In any proclamation erecting the town reeves and deputy town reeves of any junior county into a provisional municipal council, a time and place may be appointed for holding the first meeting, and one of such town reeves or deputy town reeves appointed to preside thereat; and in default thereof, and in all cases of the erection of such provisional municipal council by act of parliament, such time and place, and such presiding officer, shall be appointed by the sheriff of the united counties.

Qualification.-§ 17. The provisions contained in the 208th § of the 12 Vic. c. 81, as amended by this act, shall be and continue in force until the 31st day of December, 1851; and the persons therein described as entitled to elect and be elected under the same, shall be those entitled to elect and be elected respectively at all the municipal elections to be held under the said act previous to that day.

OATHS OF OFFICE.

By the 13th & 14th Vic. c. 18, the *3 Wm. IV. c 12, 19 repealed, and by § 2 the following oath of office is substituted, to be taken by public officers civil or military, barristers, attorneys, &c., throughout the province :

I, A. B., do sincerely promise and swear that I'will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria (or the reigning sovereign for the time being), as lawful sovereign of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of this province dependent on and belonging to the said kingdom, and that I will defend to the utmost of my power against all traitorous conspiracies, or attempts whatever,

which shall be made against her person, crown and dignity; and I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to her Majesty, her heirs or successors, all treasons or traitorous conspiracies and attempts which I shall know to be against her or any of them; and all this I do swear, without any equivocation, mental evasion or secret reservation, and renouncing all pardons and dispensations from any person or power whatsoever, to the contrary. So help me God.

§3. The above form, and no other, shall be that of the oath of allegiance to be administered to and taken by all persons in this province taking the oath of allegiance; and the power to administer such oath is hereby invested in all magistrates, and other officers now lawfully authorised to administer the oath of allegiance. § 4. And shall be taken within the time prescribed by law with respect to the oaths heretofore required. § 5. Affirmation allowed in certain cases. § 6. And the taking of the sacrament as a qualification for office, dispensed with.